US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 14 for "Endoscope system and method of operating the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,218, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system and method of operating the same" was invented by Masato Yoshioka (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Ozawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Makoto Sugizaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope system according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes: an endoscope; an air supply device; and a processor, in which the processor controls emission of illumination light with which a subject is illuminated and measurement light for measuring a distance between a plurality of points on the subject and the endoscope. At a first air supply volum...